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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Sallust

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way

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